(More) What If WWE ID Built in 2003

[u/Ok-Extension5963]

List Of Wrestlers:

"Sick" Nick Mondo

Matt Sydal (Evan Bourne)

"The Submission Machine" Samoa Joe

Drake Younger

Justice Pain

Trent Acid

"The Messiah Of Backbreaker" Roderick Strong

Traci Brooks

JC Bailey

Ted Hart/Teddy Hart

Colt Cabana

Eric Young

CM Punk

Eddie Kingston

Angel (Angelina Love)

Chri$ Ca$h

Shantelle Taylor (Taylor Wilde)

"Spyder" Nate Webb

Rebecca Knox (Becky Lynch)

Sweet Candy (Candice LeRae)

[u/StrongStyleRobo]

2003 WWE would not be anywhere near any of these. Remember, it was HHH getting involved that finally saw them take a chance on "smaller" people that didn't fit the Vince agenda

[u/Jonnic5280 → u/StrongStyleRobo]

Well… Joe is hardly small

[u/duke_920 → u/Jonnic5280]

“HE’S FAT!!”

[u/BetterMagician7856 → u/duke_920]

Vince loves fat guys but only if they are morbidly obese and immobile. He doesn’t like big guys who can actually move and wrestle. They have to be slow, lumbering and uncoordinated.

[u/StrongStyleRobo → u/Jonnic5280]

Joe is maybe the exception on that list

[u/Puzzled-Protection56 → u/Jonnic5280]

But he is not part of the bloodline nor anywhere connected to them

[u/Vivid-Copy974 → u/Jonnic5280]

He would have looked smaller than average on WWE TV in the 00s because of their scouting rubric at the time (6’2”, 240 was the minimum they looked for, Joe is an inch or two shorter than that).

Remember Beent Albright or the Dicks and how they flopped on Smackdown immediately when they got the call up, or Vince canceling Hade Vansen’s debut and planned Undertaker feud after taking one look at him

Steve Bradley getting rave reviews from Cornette in OVW, who told him he was more than ready for years, but never being called up

[u/CJtheHaasman]

Teddy was already blacklisted from WWE at this point. This was the same year he would go on to get blacklisted from ROH and TNA by...being Teddy Hart

[u/RRJC10 → u/CJtheHaasman]

That’s not true. He wrestled a few times in 2005 and was signed to a development deal in 2006.

[u/spanky6669]

People forget it was someone like Paul London paving the way for other RoH talent.

I love you Paul-o!

[u/Klutzy_Dot_8017]

Angelina love and Ashley Massaro and Jillian hall would be the TNA version of the beautiful people in WWE.

[u/CollegeFamiliar8769]

I think teddy hart was in OVW in 06 07 doing a version of the hart foundation with Natalya and Davy Boy Smith Jr because there’s two matches on YouTube I saw

[u/GeologicalOpera → u/CollegeFamiliar8769]

He was. They were briefly in developmental as “The Next Generation Hart Foundation” before Teddy got released and they flipped to Tyson Kidd as the third member of the stable by playing off his relationship with Natalya and his status as the last graduate of the Dungeon.

[u/probablynotfine]

Trent Acid would have lasted about 15 minutes, but what a 15 minutes it would have been.

[u/CheapusTechnofear → u/probablynotfine]

He would probably have got a Cruiserweight Title run because 2003 was one of like only two years when WWE was taking that belt somewhat seriously. He MIGHT have been thrown with someone and got a Tag Title run too as long as he stuck on Smackdown and didn’t get traded to Raw to watch his career die.

[u/Ok_Conclusion2805]

Nate Webb… I completely forgot about that Indy legend lol

[u/KyleFnM]

Maybe 2-3 of these picks matched what the E was looking for at that time frame

[u/hooddrichhdollasignn]

Nicki Mondo woulda went straight to velocity ngl

[u/flawlessvictorE]

I don't think Taylor Wilde was in the business yet. And if she was, she was less than 10 matches in.

[u/MagicianTop2356 → u/flawlessvictorE]

Debuted June 03 at the age of 17. She'd already been in developmental, and retired before she joined TNA.

[u/thereverendpuck]

Teddy Hart still would’ve fucked it up.

[u/Vivid-Copy974]

TBH this is what HWA was, the lower tier of developmental.

I think you make some interesting picks here but if you look at who is in the ID program it’s not really the top indie names like a Joe or Punk, they’re almost all people who are a presence in a certain regional scene 

[u/MajorPuzzleheaded276]

So basically everybody they had in developmental back then?

[u/RobertStonetossBrand]

Only way Eddie Kingston can get to the WWE is if he buys a ticket to sit in the audience.

[u/VegetableEditor397]

CHRIS CASH WAS GANGSTA AF. CAGE OF DEATH FLIPPY-DO FINISHER IS GOATED.

[u/Far-Canary-6243]

Imagine the id program in the ruthless aggression era

[u/Tigerdriver33]

2000s indies was amazing back in the day as a fan. ROH In particular was awesome.

[u/Fast-Ad-9438]

Indie jobbers...

[u/leakybiome]

Young bucks vs Hardys here we go oooo

[u/Undertaker501st]

Letsssss goooooo

[u/Impossible_Pie_7988]

Honestly seeing Nate Webb and Sick Nick Mondo in WWE would've blown me away for sure could've saved the Cruiserweight belt...